Come Together
Oct. 8 — Atlanta’s creative pulse has always found its rhythm in communal spaces. Two projects we’re covering this week take that idea literally by turning the city’s landscape into a meeting place for art, ideas, and community.
At 665 Marietta Street, Georgia Tech Arts and the Goat Farm are preparing to begin construction on LOOP, a new collaboration that will transform the old Randall Brothers building into a westside living lab for artists, students, and researchers alike.
A bit further south, ELEVATE Atlanta 2025: Rooted & Rising reimagines bridges, boulevards, and Downtown landmarks as stages for connection – a place where artists like Courtney Brooks, Melissa “Phyllis Iller” Alexander, and SLW & Steady Productions invite Atlantans to see the city anew.
Each offers a reminder: when art lives in the open, it reshapes how we perceive ourselves and each other.
See who’s out here.
—Sherri
Test Site for Creativity
🏗️ What happens when a historic warehouse becomes a playground for artists and engineers? At 665 Marietta Street, Georgia Tech Arts and Goat Farm are developing LOOP, a seven-acre creative collaboration and performance space. The end result promises to be equal parts experimental and communal.
Celebrate Dunwoody’s public art tradition!
SPONSORED BY SPRUILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
🎨 This year’s AMPLIFY mural competition – which seeks a new mural yearly to adorn the historic Spruill Smoke House in Perimeter Center – received a record-breaking 157 submissions! Finalists have been chosen, and the winning design will be revealed on Oct. 25 at Spirits for Spruill – a celebration of creativity, community, and public art.
🍷 Enjoy delicious bites and sips, groove to live music, and be one of the first to see the newest in a long line of iconic Smoke House murals.
A City on Display
🎨 Three curators – Courtney Brooks, Melissa “Phyllis Iller” Alexander, and SLW & Steady Productions – remix familiar Atlanta spaces into places of celebration this weekend, as part of “ELEVATE: Rooted & Rising.” From a bridge fashion show to a ’90s hair battle, the free public arts festival will turn Atlanta’s corners and corridors into living galleries of art and community.
Art Happenings
🎉 BYOArt Party | 6-9 p.m., today | The Supermarket.
💬 Lindsay Burke: Quick Split – Gallery Talk | 2 p.m., Oct. 11 | Emory Visual Arts Gallery.
🗝️ Deep Fried Folk 2.0 | 5-9 p.m., Oct. 9 | 1011 Marietta St. NW. (pictured)
💡 What Will We Do NEXT? – The Power of Art to Make Change | 6:30-9 p.m., Oct. 10 | Whitespace Gallery.
🌳 The Space Within – Installation Unveiling | 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Oct. 11 | Woodruff Park.
Post of the Week
📸 Take a look behind the “Billboard“ covers.
Atlanta’s @motionfamily captured Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico for a series of global “Billboard“ covers. Photographed by @diwangvaldez, the portraits frame Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s global reach through Valdez’s distinctly Southern lens.
➡️ See the post.
🖋️ Today’s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
